Wednesday, April 20, 2016

AppleCar to come? Chuan Apple has to find a BMW foundry cooperation

AppleCar to come? Chuan Apple has to find a BMW foundry cooperation

According to the German "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reported that Apple may hire Austria Magna automotive foundry for the production of apple car. Currently Apple has been established in Berlin a "secret lab", and from a number of German automotive company hired 15-20 engineers, set up a small interdisciplinary team.

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Reported, Magna designed for large cars produced limited edition models, the company had produced MINI Paceman and MINI Clubman and the BMW X3. The company next 6-7 years is expected to produce several BMW vehicles.

This report did not introduce too much detail, but Apple considering producing cars in Germany or Austria is not surprising, because this region is the location of many high-end car brands, including Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche.

There were also reports that Apple executives have met Manga executives to Austria, to communicate with the car project. Samsung later acquired the company's battery business. Magana is also worked together with Sixty Eight Research participated in a global automotive conference, the latter being the industry generally believe that Apple automotive sector "vest."

Last September the news, informed sources said that Apple's internal car project "Project Titan" in the manufacture of many problems encountered, may seek to cooperate with other vendors. The company plans to produce its own brand cars in 2020. The latest rumors that Apple may be in the car in 2020 or 2021, priced at $ 75,000 (about 489,000 yuan) around.

At the same time domain information service provider Who.is data show that Apple in December registered a number of such domain names, including apple.car, apple.cars and apple.auto.